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The “lost recording” of Chanticleer performing Aloha Oe is now exclusively available for download from Chanticleer’s website after their recent live performance on MPR’s A Prairie Home Companion.  Visit www.chanticleer.org to download this song or any song or album from Chanticleer’s discography.

I’ve just taken on leadership of a women’s choir, and I’m trying to get organised for the whole year – hence I am already asking questions about Christmas!   Can anyone recommend a carol collection for women’s voices, other than Oxford’s Carols for Choirs 4?   I’d ideally like to find the SA (SSA etc) equivalent […]

I am working in a middle school as chorus teacher and need money for trips, music, etc. Any fund-raising ideas are welcome! Please!!! Jack Louden 

by Rainier Ehrhardt/Staff   It took classical choral composer George Handel less than a month to write his masterpiece Messiah , but more than 250 years for a lesser work to see the light of day. Tim Sharp conducts members of the combined Davidson Chorale, Southern Chorale from Georgia Southern University, and the Reid Memorial […]

 Hi everyone,   I don’t know if this is the appropriate forum to post this in, but I am wondering what topics people are interested in learning about in vocal jazz…  I’m giving a session at a music educator conference, and want it to be relevant to the people who teach vocal jazz…  What areas would […]

Does anyone know where I can find recordings of Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 and 95 in English? Thanks  

 Hi!   We are doing a concert on Thanksgiving day and are looking for suggestions on sacred masterpieces from American composers for mixed choir, tenor solo and brass and percussion accompaniment.  Should be no more than eight minutes (< 8 min.) long.  We want it to be the closing piece for the first part of […]

When the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus embarked on its Freedom Tour into the heart of Proposition 8 territory over the weekend, there were concerns. Would red-state towns like Redding and Chico turn out to see gay men in tuxedos singing “Over the Rainbow”? Would there be protests, threats or fear-mongering from Shasta County’s fundamentalist […]

Cincinnati, OH – Stanard Design Partners has developed and launched the online home – http://2012worldchoirgames.com/ – for the 2012 World Choir Games. The games will be hosted in Cincinnati USA, spanning eleven days in July 2012. Referred to as the “Olympics” of choir competitions, the event draws more than 20,000 participants and hundreds of thousands of visitors […]

Congratulations to the choral Grammy winners 2010: Best Classical Album: Mahler’s 8th (Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Girls Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Chorus) Best Choral Performance: Mahler’s 8th (same) Best Orchestral Performance: Ravel Daphnis & Chloe (Tanglewood Festival Chorus) Best Opera Recording: Billy Budd (Gentlemen of the London Symphony Chorus) Other winners involving choral albums: Producer […]